LENIN SHOT 100 YEARS AGO TODAY
Moscow, U.S.S.R.(JFK+50) On August 30, 1918 an assassination attempt was made on Vladimir Lenin here in Moscow. The Soviet leader, who had just completed a speech at the Hammer & Sickle arms factory, was walking to his car when three shots rang out.
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Moscow, U.S.S.R.(JFK+50) On August 30, 1918 an assassination attempt was made on Vladimir Lenin here in Moscow. The Soviet leader, who had just completed a speech at the Hammer & Sickle arms factory, was walking to his car when three shots rang out.
One shot passed through Lenin's neck and a second punctured his lung. While the Soviet leader survived, he never fully recovered from the attack.
The would-be assassin was Soviet Revolutionary party member Fanny Yefimovna Kaplan*. She was disillusioned with Lenin and considered him "a traitor to the revolution."
*Fanny Yefimovna Kaplan (1890-1918) became a political revolutionary & joined the Socialist Revolutionary Party. She was arrested at the age of 16 for her involvement in a terrorist bomb plot & served time in prison. FYK was executed on Sept. 3, 1918.
SOURCE
"Vladimir Lenin Shot," www.history.com/
Lenin Assassination Attempt
by Vladimir Pchelin (1927)
